re: 23 year old woman sentenced to death in Iran for blasphemy.

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Why do you care what the pope says?

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I care because the papacy could be using its influence in much more constructive ways than dabbling in politics.

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I'm told by many Americans that The Death Penalty is Biblical,

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Leviticus 24:16:
16Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

And of course Deuteronomy 21:22:
And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree

So the kind, generous, loving creator of objective morality would have us stone to death and then crucify someone guilty of blasphemy.

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why should I be upset by this

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Because it is immoral by our standards of morality based on freedom and liberty.

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PS She fine.

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She’s not bad.